EXCLUSIVE … FRANKEN CoS JUMPS TO SOLAZYME: Washington vet Drew Littman is leaving Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), where he’s been since 2009, to open the Washington operation for renewable oil and bioproducts company Solazyme. This isn’t Littman’s first trip downtown. The former top aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) previously served as a principal at Podesta Associates where he worked on clients such as the Motion Pictures Association of America, Genentech and GE Capital.

Solazyme CEO/Co-founder Jonathan Wolfson said of Littman: "Drew’s experience in government relations and his depth of experience on the legislative side on the Hill makes him an ideal fit for our company as we rapidly commercialize our technology.”

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Solazyme has been ramping up its Washington presence since the end of 2009 when the company first registered to lobby. The company spent $52,000 on lobbying during the first half of the year, according to Senate reports.

PI SCOOP … NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION READIES BIG CAMPAIGN: Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, held a conference call with two dozen state retail associations late last week to preview a nationwide campaign the federation will announce Tuesday.

“As we kick off our campaign next week, your support will again be critical — especially in bolstering the grass-roots activities that are at the heart of an aggressive advocacy push,” Shay told the state retail associations, a person on the call tells PI. The campaign, the PI tipster says, will involve a “heavy lobbying element” and advertisements “all week across a variety of channels.”

BREAKING … MARLOWE TO STAY ON AT LOBBYIST LEAGUE:Howard Marlowe, president of the American League of Lobbyists, announced at a board meeting this afternoon that he will stay on another year, according to a PI tipster. Marlowe stepped in to run the organization during a period of turmoil following the unexpected death of longtime executive director Patti Jo Barber. Marlowe has overhauled the group’s organizational structure and has pushed, along with other members, for ALL to put out a lobbying reform proposal.

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And now, on to the show.

UBS SCANDAL TO TOUCH U.S. BANKS? K-Streeters are already starting to agitate about whether the shocking $2.3 billion trading loss at UBS could mean that Congress will take another look at capital requirements for U.S. banks.

One financial services lobbyist told PI that banks are “totally worried about Washington” because they’re getting sued by state attorneys general and the housing regulatory agency while at the same time they’re being told to lend to small businesses and to hold more capital. “Something has to give,” the lobbyist said. “They can’t pay billions to the trial bar, lend billions to risk takers and hoard their money at the same time.”

COLLATERAL DAMAGE is on the minds of non-UBS banks, one industry expert said:

“Whenever we find out what occurred, companies will make sure specifically that that activity could not occur at their banks,” he continued. “It behooves them from an image risk, but also from a $2 billion loss risk.” (Hat tip: Abby Phillip for pitching in on this item.)

DCCC’S MILLION DOLLAR MATCH CAMPAIGN:Former Vice President Al Gore sent DCCC supporters an email asking for support for the party campaign’s “Million Dollar Matching Gift Campaign” before the Sept. 30 fundraising deadline. “The tea partiers now calling the shots in the Republican Party won’t back away from their radical agenda. And they are also exceedingly well funded by corporate backers, thanks to the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizen United decision,” Gore writes. The campaign: contribute $3 or more and your gift will be matched by House Democrats with $2 of their own.

ICYMI: Check out Anna and Manu Raju’s story on which bundling lobbyists are sitting at the nexus of campaign cash and access to the powerful lawmakers on the supercommittee. http://politi.co/q7p8YO

TOTAL SPECTRUM HIRES K ST. VETS: Republican political strategist Steve Gordon is expanding Total Spectrum, the firm he launched in 2008, picking up Mike Cys, John McKechnie and Steve Pfister. Cys, who will serve as managing partner, was the political and grass-roots director for 10 years at the American Medical Association. McKechnie and Pfister are both joining as partners. McKechnie, former chief lobbyist at the Credit Union National Association, spent 19 years working his way up the ranks at the trade group. Pfister was the chief lobbyist at the National Retail Federation until 2010.

** A message from the National Retail Federation: America’s retailers support one in four American jobs and nearly twenty percent of U.S. GDP. Watch for the launch of our unprecedented year-long advocacy campaign tomorrow, and learn how retail is powering the recovery. **

AFL-CIO SENDS SUPERCOMMITTEE MEMO: The AFL-CIO sent lawmakers its wish list for what the supercommittee should tackle. “Let’s be clear: if the supercommittee were to follow Speaker Boehner’s advice, it would deepen our jobs crisis and sink our economy into a black hole,” the group writes. Instead, the union writes that the deficit-slashing panel can meet its targets by drawing down troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, through health care cost containments that don’t reduce Medicaid or diminish benefits, and through changes to the tax code (like higher capital gains rates and allowing the Bush-era cuts to expire).

OBAMA BASHES K ST.: President Barack Obama took the opportunity Monday morning to bash lobbyists during his deficit reduction address. “Our tax code shouldn’t give an advantage to companies with the best-connected lobbyists. It should give an advantage to companies that invest in the United States of America and create jobs in the United States of America. And we can lower the corporate rate if we get rid of all these special deals.”

ILLINOIS POLITICAL PARTIES LEARN TO COUNT: Looks as if both the Democratic Party of Illinois and Illinois Republican Party are having some trouble keeping their finances straight.

First, the Democrats: The state party committee acknowledged to the FEC this weekend that it “inadvertently omitted” more than $179,000 in disbursements from its final 2010 election cycle report. About $131,000 of that came in the form of a payment to Roosevelt Media for campaign mailer services.

The state Republican Party committee, for its part, is amending its monthly February, March, April and May reports to correct its listed debt. Telling the FEC this week they “inadvertently omitted from the originally filed reports.” (For example, the committee’s February report listed no debt. The amended report lists $101,441.) The party’s mea culpa: “Due to the change in executive staff at the Illinois Republican Party, and due to the large number of transactions at the end of the 2010 campaign cycle, it took an excessive amount of time to get a complete and accurate accounting of expenses incurred.”

NAFCU HOSTS RECEPTION: The National Association of Federal Credit Unions is hosting a reception Tuesday evening at the Longworth House Office Building for members of Congress and staff as part of the group’s annual congressional caucus. The caucus is taking place at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel where a slew of lawmakers, including Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) are talking with the trade group’s members about financial services issues.

FOREIGN FRENZY:Patton Boggs has advocated on behalf of more foreign nations or entities during the first half of this year than any other lobby shop, a Justice Department report sent this month to Congress states. Read coverage from the Legal Times here: http://bit.ly/pLGULF

MANATT D.C. MEMORIAL: The Washington, D.C., memorial service for longtime lobbyist and Democratic strategist Charles Manatt, co-founder of Manatt Phelps & Phillips, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Thursday at Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church.

NEW POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE FILINGS: Zilch.

RECENT REGISTRATIONS: Zero.

** A message from the National Retail Federation: With 3.6 million stores drawing on a vast array of suppliers, retail directly and indirectly accounts for 42 million jobs and $2.5 trillion of annual GDP. With these stats in mind, no doubt retail will play a substantial role in the economic recovery. Tomorrow NRF will launch an unprecedented year-long advocacy campaign to underscore the economic significance of the retail industry and to advance an agenda for Jobs, Innovation and Consumer Value on behalf of America’s retailers. Looking for specifics? Tomorrow you’ll see more. **

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Anna covers the world of Congress and politics, and has successfully chronicled the business of Washington insiders for years. Her stories take readers behind the scenes for the biggest fights in Washington as well as the 2016 election.

Prior to becoming POLITICO’s senior Washington correspondent, Anna was the co-author of the daily newsletter, POLITICO Influence, considered a must-read on K Street.

Anna previously covered House leadership and lobbying as a staff writer for Roll Call. She got her start in Washington journalism as a lobbying business reporter for the industry newsletter Influence. She has also worked at Legal Times, where she covered the intersection of money and politics for the legal and lobbying industry, first as a staff writer and then as an editor.

A native of North Dakota, Anna is a graduate of St. Olaf College, where she was executive editor of the weekly campus newspaper, the Manitou Messenger. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Dave Levinthal reports on political influence issues for POLITICO. Before joining POLITICO, Dave worked for two years as editor of OpenSecrets.org at the Center for Responsive Politics, where he oversaw the Center's original journalism and provided analysis to hundreds of television, radio and print news outlets.

Between 2003 and 2009, Dave reported on Dallas City Hall for The Dallas Morning News, and from 2000 to 2002, covered the New Hampshire Statehouse for the Lawrence (Mass.) Eagle-Tribune. He graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in newspaper journalism and political philosophy and edited The Daily Orange.

Some may argue, but there is no more dedicated Bills fan than this Buffalo, N.Y., native.